Mika Braginsky
Pronouns:
they/them
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Iām a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, advised by Ted Gibson.
Before that I was a research assistant in the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, working with Mike Frank.
Research
Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning: The Wordbank Project
Book of large-scale cross-linguistic analyses using data from the Wordbank project
Consistency and variability in children's word learning across languages
Paper on predicting words' acquisition trajectories from their properties
Tools
Wordbank
Database of vocabulary development data and interactive tools for its access
wordbankr
R package for retrieving data from Wordbank
childesr
R package for accessing childes-db, a database of child language corpora
rwebppl
R interface to the WebPPL probabilistic programming language
ggpirate
R package for making plots of data with categorical independent variables
tidyboot
R package for doing tidyverse-compatible bootstrapping
jglmm
R package for fitting generalized linear mixed effects models in Julia from R
Teaching
Lab in Psycholinguistics
TA spring 2018 & spring 2019
Miscellaneous
Interactive visualizations
Cambridge election results 2017
Trends in name genders
Multilingual translation